- Sustainability Champions
- Big Challenges
- Environmental
- Social
No More Deaths- Farming and Food Production
- The Sustainability Mindset
- What is Sustainability?
- Black Lives Matter
- Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
- Conflict-free Minerals
- One Water
- Design and Architecture
- Ecotourism and Sustainable Tourism
- Equal Rights for Women and Girls
- Sustainability in Higher Education
- Empathy and Consciousness
- Health and Wellness
- Culture and Consciousness
- Leadership Development
- Economic
- Events
- Places
- Series
- Called From Darkness
- AI for Good
- Global Warming Teaching Circle
- Reconciling Ways of Knowing
- Sustainable Today
- Native Perspectives on Sustainability
- Peak Moment
- The Natural Way: Indigenous Voices: Speaker Series
- Sustainability Pioneers
- 24 Hours of Reality by The Climate Reality Project
- Ray Anderson Memorial Interviews
- The Ways: Great Lakes Native Culture & Language
About This Collection
The design and production of materials, structures, and systems that are modeled on biological entities and processes.
"Biomimicry is an approach to innovation that seeks sustainable solutions to human challenges by emulating nature’s time-tested patterns and strategies. The goal is to create products, processes, and policies—new ways of living—that are well-adapted to life on earth over the long haul. The core idea is that nature has already solved many of the problems we are grappling with. Animals, plants, and microbes are the consummate engineers. After billions of years of research and development, failures are fossils, and what surrounds us is the secret to survival." Biomimicry Institute.
Download an infographic on biomimicry here. It is available courtesy of RS Components.
Curated by mokiethecat
Backlash Against Nature-Based Solutions to Climate Change by Suzanne Simard |
For decades, scientists have warned about the consequences of deforestation and fossil fuel burning that have led to today’s climate and biodiversity crises. They have also conducted careful research that has helped inform development of nature-based solutions. Despite the urgency of the interdependent crises and the agency we have in helping address them, there abound efforts to discredit peer-reviewed climate change science. Dr. Simard’s talk will delve into recent backlash she has experienced over her science that informs climate solutions for the forests of western North America. EarthSayer Dr. Tami Simard |
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The Ecological Design Revolution by John Todd
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The voice of the natural world by Bernie Krause
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Biomimicry at the nano level by Dr. Low Hong Yee
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Biomimicry is more than just good design
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Looking to Nature: Biomimicry and Design
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Sustainability and Getting Better Answers by George Crombie
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The world is poorly designed. But copying nature helps
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Becoming a Welcome Species: Biomimicry and the Art of Generous Design by Janine Benyus
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